Ranger/Monk Alignment?

[Timberkiller]

I know you have to be lawful for the monk splash. I am interested in finding out the advantages and disadvantages of going neutral or good. I had a friend, and some others tell me to go neutral, and I did. Now I figure out I can't use pure good weapons. I have not been able to reach friends for their reasoning, so was hoping for some answers here.

I'm building a dwarven tempest ranger/monk 1, possibly 2.

Thanks for looking.

[SimVerg]

Neutral lets you use a litany of the dead, good lets you use pure good. Pure good is not particularly relevant at high level due to Shroud weps, Litany is only relevant at high level if you can beat the Abbot. You also take less dmg from certain relatively uncommon and insignificant effects.

[Rilean]

Good lets you use chaos guard bracers thats an extra 2 ac if you are going that way

[Lymnus]

Lawful Neutral, with UMD.
Lawful Good, without UMD.

Matters if you have UMD or not.

[cm2_supernova]

Lawful Neutral, with UMD.
Lawful Good, without UMD.

Matters if you have UMD or not.

/agreed

[Timberkiller]

What does the clicky on the Litany of the Dead do? Turn the page spell? Do you need umd to use this item?

So, is my lawful neutral build, with no umd, gimped then? Any other losses other than pure good weapons? Don't plan on using chaos guards, so no problem there. Would like to have Icy Raiments, and hopefully chattering ring, along with +7 bracers. Unless there is a better route to more ac that I am unaware of, along the lines of this build.

Character is level 7, so I'd hate to start over but I could.

Thanks guys, I'm pretty new, have just gotten 1750 favor, and still have a lot to learn.

Thanks for the replies.